<p>Ah yes! Two of my favorite shows! My school did Les Mis two years ago and it was awesome, and Spring Awakening just speaks for itself!</p>
<p>I wish I could see Spring Awakening! I would also love to see Chicago on Broadway. (I’ve seen it twice off Broadway and it was excellent!)</p>
<p>has anyone here seen studio 60 on the sunset strip?</p>
<p>For my daily routine, I wrote about my love for video games and how it expands my imagination and interests and provides a nice way to deal with stress</p>
<p>My intriguing character is Dorian Gray from Mr. Wilde’s famous book </p>
<p>and I picked teen pregnancy as my issue cause i work on a national board dealing with the issue BTW GUYS WATCH TEEN MOM ON MTV. :)</p>
<p>Teen Mom always makes me really sad. Really, it’s just not entertaining to watch teenage mothers publicize their mistakes.</p>
<p>@ wej</p>
<p>that’s good! that means the show’s doing its job. we didn’t want teens to see it and be like OH I WANT A BABAY.</p>
<p>on another note, I love jersey shore. it’s like the pork rinds of the television world.</p>
<p>deadmau5, do you actually work for Teen Mom?</p>
<p>well, in a different kind of way. I’m on the Youth Leadership Team for the national campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy, so it’s our job to connect with audiences on a lot of things that involve the issue - including Teen Mom. My boss wants me to talk to teens and get the word out about it, because 16 and pregnant was such a big hit and because The Campaign was more directly involved with Teen Mom.</p>
<p>I didn’t write or produce the show, but a group of other YLT members and myself attended early screenings and gave feedback. It was really upsetting, but definitely gets its point across - something I hope causes teens to stop and think about the issue.</p>
<p>I hope I don’t sound conceited :P</p>
<p>nah, that’s pretty cool actually. I think you said on another thread that you’re from MD, right? So am I. What county are you from?</p>
<p>oh sweet! yeah, I’m from Baltimore County. what about you? :O</p>
<p>hi all!</p>
<p>I’m a huge theatre/Broadway dork. I especially love Spring Awakening. </p>
<p>I wrote about Prior Walter from Angels in America for my favorite character. (I just realized he’s a guy and this application’s for an all-girls school. Oh well)</p>
<p>I wrote about driving home from school for my daily routine. I like to sing loudly. :)</p>
<p>Governmental issue is equal rights for LGBT community, especially marriage equality. </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I’m working on the Barnard supplement right now and I think I’m going to write about Claude Bukowski from HAIR (I’m not an incredibly super-huge Broadway enthusiast but that show just blew. me. away). Probably going the “character who intrigued me” route because I can’t think of what he taught me. He’s just supremely cool. And I really recommend the revival of Hair if any of you are going to be in New York anytime soon.</p>
<p>ah yeah hopefully I’m seeing it again right after New Years. :)</p>
<p>But cottoncandy, I don’t know about writing about Claude, because the character is not very well written. I think you might actually have more to work with if you chose Berger. 
I mean the book of the show is kind of terrible, but it doesn’t matter, because the songs are amazing and the cast is incredible. Best of luck! :D</p>
<p>Thanks! I agree that there isn’t a TON of substance behind Claude, but I figured it would almost be easier to pick a character with less considering I can only use 1000 characters. I started with Jean Valjean from Les Miserables (the book version) but found that a short paragraph wasn’t really enough to delve into background, character analysis, and importance in my life 
I guess I’ll write Claude and see how it turns out…</p>
<p>I wrote about Yang Wenli from a Japanese book series titled The Legend of Galactic Heroes…although my memory of him mostly came from the anime version of the original book series. But, anyway, I’m very proud that I get to be accepted into Barnard AND to share my love for Yang with whoever that read my application. It’s probably not as crazy as I personally feel but I still can’t believe what I did–ten years later I will definitely be sharing this story with my anime-loving friends and children. XD</p>
<p>@peaches</p>
<p>haha, I did Agrado from Todo Sobre Mi Madre! I wrote about her monologue and how authenticity is achieved by realizing who you want to be, and not resigning to what you’ve been given.</p>
<p>I wrote about Erik (The Phantom) from The Phantom of the Opera. I described that his story has permeated through film, literature, and musical theatre for almost a century because everyone can relate to feeling ‘different’ or outcasted, and how this had always been a comfort to me.
I don’t know if this was the best choice, but I guess I’m sticking with it.</p>
<p>i wrote about edward bloom from big fish</p>
<p>Haha, I wrote about Julia Stiles from the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. I talked about how she taught me I could embrace my femininity as part of my intellectual journey. At the end I included some shameless name dropping about how Julia paved the way for my appreciation of Ayn Rand/Margaret Atwood/some other female writer in order not to come across as a total ditz. Hopefully that worked.</p>
<p>As for the routine I wrote about listening to NPR’s This American Life every night with my dad while doing the dishes. I liked that essay better.</p>
<p>On the whole I really liked the Barnard prompts, I thought one paragraph was a good length and they were a good combination of specific and abstract.</p>
<p>I wrote about House…Dr. House and how I like his dark humor…I sometimes love him and hate him.</p>